[amsat-bb] Re: Status VO-52

----- Original Message -----
From: "PE0SAT" <pe0sat at vgnet.nl>
To: "Nitin Muttin" <vu3tyg at yahoo.co.in>
Cc: <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2012 7:45 AM
Subject: [amsat-bb] Status VO-52
>> Hi Nithin,
>> Is there a way that you, ISRO or Amsat India can keep us (Ham Radio
> community) informed about the status of VO-52.
>> The silence around VO-52 gives me a bad feeling.
>> Maybe it is possible to gives us an update lets say every week?
> More frequent is also welcome ;-)
>> 73 Jan PE0SAT
>Hi Jan, PE0SAT
I agree with you because I am interested to know if the Indian
transponder has been switched or not with the Dutch transponder
and what the result was.
The silence around VO-52 make me concerned because after
AO-51 died probably VO-52 in my opinion has been used to
much in FM all over the world determining a deterioration
of the batteries.
We need VO-52 because OSCAR-7 is strongly FMing and the
rest of satellites except FO-29 are in very bad conditions.
I would like to receive an official report about the VO-52
situation from ISRO through AMSAT-India very often,
I agree with you every week or less.
I remember that when AO40 was in truble we got a dayly
report on AMSAT-BB every day from Stacey Mills,W4SM
because he was the main command station of the bird and
this make a great difference.
I can't understand why the command station for VO-52
must be ISRO using not amateur frequencies enstead of
AMSAT India using the amateur bands.
Best 73" de
i8CVS Domenico